I’m not all that familiar with the “Brony” community — dudes that are into “My Little Pony” — but it sounds silly, harmless, and maybe even ironic to me. Damn kids and their ponies. Apparently, certain dudes are into this new version of “My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.” I understand the writing and animation on the new show is outstanding, and not even specifically aimed at teen girls. It’s not really my thing, but then again, my daughters aren’t old enough for it yet. What it doesn’t strike me as is something that dudes ought to be ashamed of liking because it doesn’t fall under the “freedoms” for which the troops in Afghanistan are fighting. But one a**hole over on Big Hollywood has a huge bug up his ass about how guys like to spend their free time.

… Should Hollywood really be enabling this phenomenon?

Hell no. It’s a freaking embarrassment

All the while, as these pathetic sissies giggle like school girls over magic unicorns that spray rainbows from their horns, real men – and women – who have put aside the temptation to retreat into a frivolous fantasy world are tromping through the wilds of Afghanistan. Such young adults, some younger (in years) than the “bronies,” are protecting all of us – including these pathetic weirdoes.

It makes me want to wretch.

Yeah, some will say it’s unfair to compare a bunch of harmless fem-boys who stopped maturing at age seven with the heroic men and women facing death or dismemberment on all our behalves every day. People who say that are wrong. These perma-virgins ought to be ashamed of themselves …

Really? I know that Big Hollywood is a anti-liberal site fond of trolling for hits, but goddamn, this nutter has gone psycho. Of all the crap you can pick on liberals for, this guy chooses “My Little Pony”? It’s not even a liberal show — it’s a show that espouses Christian messages. I don’t want to say this guy is pathetic and insecure about his own masculinity, but this guy is pathetic and insecure about his own masculinity. Besides, from what I understand about the new “My Little Pony,” it features military ponies and preaches a lot of conservative values, and for the most part, the men who watch it were introduced to it by their daughters. IS THIS GUY ANTI-FAMILY? What does he have against fathers who want to spend some quality TV time with their kids? This is what’s ruining America: Conservatives like this guy encouraging Dads to go out and smoke crack and kill prostitues instead of spending time with their daughters. Such a shame.

The argument that “you’re doing X while soldiers are over there fighting in Y, should make you ashamed of yourself” works for pretty much everything. “You’re sitting at a desk at work making money for some big corporation, while soldiers in Somalia are fighting for their freedom. You make me sick.” Its pointless, and stupid. Its an argument that people make when theres no point in making an argument.

I don’t know, they’re getting insanely worked up over something entirely fictitious. If that doesn’t honor the memory of a guy who doctored videos into bullshit scandals for a living, I don’t know what does.

I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, but at age six, the family moved to San Mateo, California, which at the time was a sort-of conservative Bay Area town founded by people disgusted by San Francisco. I was always conservative, and the reason was simple – liberals and liberalism didn’t make any sense to me. I was a big news watcher and newspaper reader even as a kid, and I remember being very young and watching a story about the Vietnam War, where they had decided that it would be smart to disarm medical evacuation helicopters because maybe then, the communists wouldn’t shoot at them. I was maybe six or seven years old, but even at that age, this struck me as about the stupidest thing I’d ever heard. That sums up liberalism to me.

His ideas of liberalism were formed at the age of six, in reaction to the military’s decision not to arm medevac Hueys. Because we all know that order came straight from Jane Fonda, of course.

Am I the only one who thinks Brony sounds like some sort of slur? Like an ableist or possibly racist slur. Took me a long time to find out what it actually meant, but I always kinda thought it was a slur referring to the mentally-challenged.

That’s funny. I’m an Active Duty Solder and have been for 8 years. I’ve led men. I spent a month with the 82nd Airborne in New Orleans. I spent 15 months in Afghanistan with the same unit. I’ve represented our country in Belgium and I’m currently typing this from West Africa, where I’m serving with 10th Special Forces. I’m around 6tf, 200lbs of tattoos and trained muscle.

As a 23 year old brony, I just laugh at the guy. He doesn’t know what he’s missing. Some people are just fearful of anything that goes against tradition, especially ones that break the rigidly conceived gender norms they’ve been socialized to believe are inherently right. It also allows them to feel a moral superiority by ridiculing a certain group.

I challenge anyone who thinks they hate the show to watch episodes 1 to 12 with an open-mind. I have yet to meet one person who has taken my challenge that hasn’t become a brony.